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eBay Buffoon of the Dayhttp://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1728-eBay-Buffoon-of-the-Day
Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:51:49 GMTJust thought I'd air this out.
Comment if you like, I just thought this would be comedic. We all know those eBay goofballs that do the most random things for the most random of reasons.

This is meant to be read from top to bottom (Oldest message on top)

A minimal amount of info beforehand:
I am the buyer in this case, and won two items from the same seller which were listed at $5 Shipping each. I requested an invoice total and:

Originally Posted by kr0n

Hi,
Is $7.50 the correct amount you meant to charge for shipping?

Thanks,
Adam

Originally Posted by Seller

It was but ill do 6.50

Thanks

Originally Posted by kr0n

That's still really high compared to the actual price it will cost you to ship.
When I saw you were charging $5.00 Shipping per auction, I assumed it would be free combined shipping.

Could you please cancel the transaction for the /card name/. I'll pay the $5 Shipping for the /card name/, which is still insanely high, but the only reason I bid on the /card name/ was because I figured it'd be free after the first $5.

Thanks,
Adam

Originally Posted by Seller

That's fine! Ill do free for the other. Ill change the invoice tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience. I don't need any bad feedback but whatever you would like. Ill remove it or change it whatever you want. I'm tryin to make it work.

Thanks

Originally Posted by kr0n

If you're offering to ship both for $5 I would like that option.

Thanks,
Adam

-- 6 days later, cards have arrived, I ended up paying $5 shipping --

Originally Posted by kr0n

Lol man, $5 for shipping and you can't even use padded envelopes? Come on.

You wanted $7.50 originally for shipping, which was obviously out of whack. I didn't agree with $5 much either really, but I let it go cause I know people just want to make an extra buck when they can. But come on man, you don't even use padded envelopes lol. $5-$7.50 shipping charges, and it cost you $1.12 to ship, in a cheap envelope that shouldn't be used for cards.

That's a joke.

I'm not going to leave you negative feedback, cause the cards did arrive and they seem to be in ok shape, it's Topps Chrome which has problems anyway. so it's harder to tell, but I am going to leave neutral feedback and draw attention to the shipping charges.

I recall you saying you were trying to avoid negative feedback, well man, you really are not doing yourself any favors by doing this with this shipping stuff.

Good luck in the future,
Adam

Originally Posted by Seller

Wow! Really? You want to complain about everything again? I have set shipping for all my items at $5 and haven't gotten any negative feedback. No one has had problems this far but I guess there's always someone looking to cause problems. Give me what feedback you want but you know, I didn't make you bid and I honestly didn't plan on those particular items to go that high in price but hey, I have no control over that. Sorry for all the problems but if I knew this woulda been that big of a deal, I woulda wrapped yer stuff in gold!! Can't satisfy everyone but at least I tried! Anyway, thanks again for the business!

Ps- I gave you good feedback even though you were difficult but you still knew the shipping charges before bidding but you still bid. And I was more than flexible with you about it.

Have a good one!

Originally Posted by kr0n

First of all, "Wow! Really?" was my precise reaction out loud when I opened the envelope and saw that this packaging is what I paid $5 for, and that you had the audacity to try and get $7.50 for the same thing.

I'm not looking to cause problems. I'm giving honest feedback.
You're absolutely correct, you didn't make me bid. I did know the shipping charges yes, but not what they were for or how they were used. Now your buyers can see that you charge $5 shipping, but for no real reason other than to make a few more bucks. Not only do you charge ~4x the price of fair shipping, but you chose the cheap route and don't even use a padded envelope. That's a two-fold gouge. Knock it off.

If I had known this is what I was going to get for a $5 shipping charge I would have said something, or asked to cancel the transaction. It's my fault for assuming that people have standards. In all seriousness, why would you even be selling cards on eBay without having padded envelopes? I realize it may not be your forte, I see a lot of coin selling in your feedback history, but you should still know better than to put a card(s) in an oversized loose envelope lol. A worst case scenario is you could have gone to plenty of local stores and got a $0.69 padded envelope (and that's if you buy them single, from a drug store, which is the expensive way). The $5 shipping charge could have bought 7 of those. $7.50 would have bought 10. So why are you charging so much for shipping if not for things like that?

You tried, kind of, to satisfy me. With half truths, lol. You didn't lie, but you didn't give the whole truth either. Both are bad practices.
You knocked it down from $7.50 to $5 for the same $1.12 shipping lol.
If we actually went through with the $7.50 charge, you're damn right it'd be negative feedback lol.

It isn't denoted as negative, it's neutral. In my opinion it's informative. Now buyers will know to properly/thoroughly question your shipping before buying from you.

Enjoy the read, feel free to comment.
]]>kr0nhttp://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1728-eBay-Buffoon-of-the-DayUpcoming BGS Submissionhttp://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1479-Upcoming-BGS-Submission
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:40:10 GMT13 Card order with a 10-day Turnaround.
*Current ETA*: Friday, August 2nd
*Update #1:* - July 14th - Dropped my order off in the mailbox.
*Update #2:* - July 16th - Received by Beckett @ 11:40am
...13 Card order with a 10-day Turnaround.Current ETA: Friday, August 2ndUpdate #1: - July 14th - Dropped my order off in the mailbox.Update #2: - July 16th - Received by Beckett @ 11:40am

Cheers,
Adam
]]>kr0nhttp://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1410-May-10th-Box-BreaksBGS Submissionhttp://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1397-BGS-Submission
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:25:35 GMT12 Card order with a 10-day Turnaround.
*Current ETA:* May 19th
Update #1: Received by Beckett on 11:53am, April 30th.
Update #2: Credit card charged. Looks like I was undercharged, slight chance...12 Card order with a 10-day Turnaround.Current ETA: May 19th
Update #1: Received by Beckett on 11:53am, April 30th.
Update #2: Credit card charged. Looks like I was undercharged, slight chance I miscalculated but I'm concerned why the price is off.
Update #3: Received an email on Monday, May 14th 4:06pm that my order has been shipped back.
Update #4: Got an automated call today (Friday) from FedEx, notifying me that I have a package scheduled for delivery tomorrow that requires signature confirmation. So Saturday it is.

Bolded selections will be available immediately once I get them back.Feel free to post/comment if you are interested in any.

Time for my second game in Alberta for the 2011-12 season. Tonight I'll be giving Lehner the start to see how he compares to Rask. Rask will still most certainly be my starter but every now and then you get those nice surprises. Colin Greening was sent down to the Houston affiliate, replacing him with Alexandre Giroux. There's definitely room on the team's fourth line to let the performances given by each player speak for themselves. In Friday's meeting with Edmonton Greening had 0pts, a +1 rating and 2 shots on net. Hopefully Giroux can provide more offensive potential and get a few more shots on net.

Five penalties, five different players, four of those being defensemen. Some definite discipline problems that will hopefully be ironed out during this pre-season. The 5:49 we spent being shorthanded lead to us being out shot 23-10, not a good way to win hockey games. We need to stay out of the sin bin in the second and third periods to try to gain some ground on the fast-skating Calgary team.

Ovechkin and Salmela get airborne in a collision in front of the Seattle net.

Lehner getting a pad on a shot from the point.

Hordichuk raises one over the glove of Lehner

Adam Henrique's powerplay marker gets the ball rolling for the Flames in the first.

Three unanswered goals with two coming from Gonchar and one on the powerplay should keep me in the game. Gonchar was one of two defensemen to go without a penalty in the first and is now contributing on the score sheet, great to see. Lehner had a solid period of goaltending, with his only goal allowed being a misplay by Salmela leading to Drew Miller being credited with his first of the pre-season.

Some stellar forechecking that caused a turnover landed Daniel Sedin his third of the pre-season. The goal would turn out to be the game winner with Brayden Schenn getting himself an empty netter to end the game. Lehner performed incredibly after his shaky first period. His performance gained him the 3rd star despite allowing 4 goals. Lehner will probably get the start for our first exhibition home game as a result of his display tonight in Calgary.

Great offensive contributions from the first line yet again, another 5 points from the Sedins and Grabner.

Ovechkin struggles to get up after a hit from Jack Johnson.

Daniel Sedin sends Daley head-over-heels into his own team's bench.

Sedin taking the shot on a near-empty cage in what would end up being the GWG on the turnover.

-----So I end up going 2-for-2 in my exhibition road trip, back to Seattle for two games before the 2011-12 regular season gets underway. Again, amazing show by Robin Lehner after the rocky start, and Grabner is doing everything right playing as a first line winger.

Tonight is the pre-season opener for my Seattle Jackals! Time to see what my drafting powers have whipped up as I set out against the Oilers. Letting Rask start things off and hoping he can put together a win and work towards the starting position. I'd had for my first goalie pick ever to be a bust!

Despite a four minute advantage thanks to a double roughing call, my powerplay unit couldn't get it done. On the bright side we had a quick responsive goal scored by Burish to make sure we stay even. We're getting outplayed in a lot of fields; Time on Attack, Passing Percentage and Hits. If we can correct that for the upcoming periods we can stay in this.

Stempniak opened the scoring in the preseason here in Edmonton after a couple early powerplays came up short for each team.
The Oilers brought their physical game early on, nearly doubling the Jackals in hits. Rebound chances have been the undoing so far for Seattle goalie Tukka Rask as Scott Hartnell was allowed to bang one home on his third attempt to send the Oilers up 2-1 shortly before the end of the first period.

Eberle lays out Lilja deep in the Edmonton zone in the first.

Rask gets down to block one of seventeen shots he saw in the first period of play.

The big guns came out in the second period with the Sedins both getting on the score sheet, unfortunately it's Edmonton's grinders that are giving me a tough time getting this W. Everything we seem to be doing, they are doing more and better.

Both teams squared off with a powerplay goal each in the second with Hartnell getting his second of the night. The Oilers continue to outplay the Jackals, winning an astounding 15 of 20 faceoffs in the second stanza. Seattle's passing game improved which allowed the team a couple goals in the first half of the period only to be answered by a pair of goals in the second half by the Oilers.

Shots: SEA 28, EDM 13Faceoffs: SEA 11, EDM 12Looks like my choice to draft the Sedins back-to-back is paying off in big dividends in the early going. Our top players really brought their A game in the third

A game misconduct in the early portion of the third period ending up spelling the doom of the Oilers as the Jackals went on to score three goals on the ensuing powerplay including a tally by Grabner on the backhand six seconds after being checked from behind by Edmonton's Nielsen.

Nielsen racked up 21 of Edmonton's 23 penalty minutes, compared to Seattle's 6. This resulted in Seattle going 4 for 6 with the man advantage while the Oilers could only muster a 1 for 3 effort.

Seattle's top line combined for 3 goals, 4 assists and a combined -3 rating, showing that while the Jackals may be well on their way to an explosive offensive season, defense is still key.

Rask gets the pad out against Cracknell, denying a scoring chance.

Grabner lays out Smith, seeking vengenace for the hit taken from Nielsen.

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So that concludes the presentation of my first game, hopefully entertaining for some people at least. From here on out I'll be seeing how much effort is involved in including some video clips, as well as trying to make them as presentable as possible.

All questions, comments and feedback welcome!

]]>kr0nhttp://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1258-My-NHL-12-GM-Career-Sept-23-2011My NHL 12 GM Career - League Rosterhttp://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1257-My-NHL-12-GM-Career-League-Roster
Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:40:24 GMT*_Game Date:_* Sept. 22, 2011
Opening night of the preseason!
My team is not part of opening night, we play tomorrow in Edmonton for our opener.
As I said before, I will now give the starting...Game Date: Sept. 22, 2011
Opening night of the preseason!

My team is not part of opening night, we play tomorrow in Edmonton for our opener.

As I said before, I will now give the starting line-ups for each team as of today the opening night of the preseason. Anyone who may be following along will be able to see where the players are starting, and be able to see if they move, or how they perform and help their team. I'll be making note of all trades from here on out.

Here are the early lineups as the teams work things out in the pre-season:

Rask / LehnerI'm starting out with Grabner on the top line with the Sedins. We'll see how that works out but there's always a chance Eberle may be bumped up depending on the performance of the two. There's lots of juggle room in the lower lines as well with Schenn and Fleischmann being interchangeable as well as room for competition on the wings of the fourth line with Morrison for the prospects still in the AHL at the moment.

Captaincy
C: H. Sedin
A: Jovanovski
A: D. Sedin

ScoutingI sent my scout to check out Forwards from USA for 2 weeks, a short dip in the pool to get the ball rolling on my scouting information. CSB's early top 5 has players all from Canada so that will likely be my next stop.
]]>kr0nhttp://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1257-My-NHL-12-GM-Career-League-RosterMy NHL 12 GM Career - Day 1; The Fantasy Drafthttp://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1255-My-NHL-12-GM-Career-Day-1-The-Fantasy-Draft
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:21:54 GMTSo here we are, the initial opening fantasy draft for my NHL 12 GM Career. As previously stated I will randomize the draft order 30 times, cover the entire first round, then follow up covering all...So here we are, the initial opening fantasy draft for my NHL 12 GM Career. As previously stated I will randomize the draft order 30 times, cover the entire first round, then follow up covering all of my picks.

Thoughts on Round 1:
No surprise at the first three picks. Kind of got shafted by pulling the last pick in the first round, thankfully that leaves me with 2 back to back picks and leaves me the option to pick up the Sedin twins.

A little surprising to see players like Keith, Tavares, and Hedman go before Ryan Miller, Datsyuk and Zetterberg.

Seven goalies taken in the first round, so a lot skimmed off the top, leaving me now to decide if I unite the Sedins or take a goalie with the first pick of the second round.

The Flyers were busy in the first round of the entry draft, trading away their 2011 and 2012 1st round picks to Chicago and Winnipeg respectively. In total the Flyers received 3 prospects and a 5th round pick in 2011 from Winnipeg. Questionable move and we'll see how that plays out in the future.

Before the picking began I received a couple trade offers. The Sharks offered me their 2012 2nd round pick and Adam Pardy for my Swedish prospect goalie Eddie Lack. Politely declined!

The Hurricanes offered D'Agostini and Jiri Tlusty in exchange for Grabner. Another deal I won't be doing. I don't plan on executing anything until seeing how my initial draft plays out.

In the second round, the phone rung again, this time with the Sens offering Jason Chimera and Jan Hejda for Grabner. Declined!

Round three, everyone wants Grabner! This time St. Louis comes knocking, offering Nikolai Kulemin and Jerred Smithson. Not sure why everyone has such great interest in him, but who knows if the right deal might eventually come along.

Round four, Dallas' turn. Berglund and Ohlund for Grabner, no thanks!

So a few deals here and there throughout the draft, none involving my team and none that included major players. The #1 overall pick seemed to be a bust for Edmonton, coming in at a 54 ranking. Meanwhile I believe I did ok for myself.

The teams are decided now, and the next step is to make lines before heading for my first pre-season game!

Next post will include total roster overview so people can see who ended up where after the fantasy draft :)
]]>kr0nhttp://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1255-My-NHL-12-GM-Career-Day-1-The-Fantasy-DraftMy NHL 12 GM Career - Day 0; The Setuphttp://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1254-My-NHL-12-GM-Career-Day-0-The-Setup
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:09:37 GMTSo as a preamble, I'll just let everyone know that the main point of me doing this stuff, and documenting it is just to stay sharp on my writing skills as well as explore outlets of creativity and have those spider-web in to who knows how many creative ideas.

Not to mention it may be an interesting read for people every now and then while just killing some time, or it may be a nice alternative to spam refreshing the same forum over and over.

So what am I doing here? Well, I'm sure NHL 12 is a familiar title in these parts. This is the (for now) brief documentation of my "career" as a GM in NHL 12 for Xbox 360.

What will I be doing? Documenting! But no, really what I'm aiming to do is give a summary or boxscore-like report on the games of my GM career. Strictly GM! I'm calling the shots but not making them! I'm unsure of the frequency as of yet, but that along with the detail I put into each posting will most likely be dictated by how much I know people are actually reading and enjoying! The plan is to have them complete with screenshots and hopefully embedded YouTube clips, just for that over-the-top touch :)

The settings, to spare everyone the slider details, I am on Superstar game difficulty, Hard GM difficulty starting at NHL Entry draft day and doing a fantasy draft. At the draft screen I will be randomizing the order 30 times.

I won't be posting the entire simulated draft, but I will do the entire first round, as well as covering my own picks of course.

After the draft, I'll go over every team's first line/defense pair/goalie, as well as show what my own lines will be, once I've figured them out.

All that being said, I believe I am ready to get myself started here. I will be opening with my own created team, the Seattle Jackals (replacing Minnesota Wild), let's hope I don't get fired!

If I ever miss explaining something I am quite open to comments, questions, PMs!